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I decided to pass on the iPad though, because I can’t stand iTunes, so I’m still waiting on that killer Android tablet to come out.Īs for MS, those guys don’t have a clue. IMHO, they make much better ‘couch computers’ than laptops or netbooks, and they could even replace a dedicated ebook reader if you don’t mind reading on an LCD screen. I know a lot of people don’t see the need/use for tablets, but I had an iPad in my possession for a few days and became a fan of tablets. Only problem is, most people that skipped out on the iPad don’t seem to want to pay more than $200 for a tablet, which is really a shame, unless you’re content with one of those cheap Chinese iPad knockoffs. And I’m talking about one running Froyo (2.2) that has access to apps on the Android Marketplace. We still need a decent Android tablet to compete with the iPad. I think it’s over before it begins….Īndroid is a choice for everyone now on anything non-apple (and on older iPhone models too if you so choose). They can’t come to the party late this time. HP will throw PalmOS into the mix too, and I’m sure there are others. Android is a choice for everyone now on anything non-apple (and on older iPhone models too if you so choose). What is going to be interesting for MS is the OEM strategy they have relied on didn’t help them for the MP3 player market, and isn’t going to help them here. Google managed to get something out the door, but no sign of MS. They don’t need to wait for other companies to show them the way, they should have been (and should be) doing this themselves, after all, they are basically a software company. Sadly though, they should have been doing this many years ago. Microsoft probably does get this too, but the work involved short term is very high. They can use Win7 as a base if they so wish, rip out a lot of the stuff they don’t need (including the UI) and layer on top a fast efficient system that is interesting enough to attract buyers. It’s a hard road, but one that has to be taken. This way they will run faster and be tablet savvy. What Apple did right was to “force” developers (including themselves) to write the applications from scratch to run on the iPhone and iPad. We’re working with our hardware partners. We’re in the process of doing that as we speak.
You would think this would be obvious.īut what’s coming out of Steve Ballmer’s mouth is, “We have got to make things happen.
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And this is, of course, on top of the obvious project of making a version of Windows 7 with an actual touch-centric UI. If Microsoft is really committed to seeing this Wintel Tablet strategy to the bitter end is should be focusing its energies on two things: working with its hardware partners to create a small, thin, light, power-sipping and CHEAP tablet, then building some kind of UI development tool for Visual Studio that makes it really easy to adapt a Windows app to a touch screen. Fiddly little icons and menus and a stylus just won’t cut it now that people have seen what iOS and Android can do.
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But for all of Windows 7’s strengths as a desktop PC OS, its UI is wholly unsuitable for a tablet PC. He’s right that a Windows tablet will print to a printer while an iPad won’t.
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Building your product on Windows gives you a huge ecosystem of device drivers and applications. Microsoft actually has some serious strengths to build on here, too.
The meeting was filled with a lot of confident language and bluster, but the subtext is that Microsoft is staying the course, after spending a decade or more ripping the keyboard off a Windows laptop and calling it a Tablet PC strategy. I can’t believe Steve Ballmer is making me feel sorry for Microsoft. The operating system is called Windows.” Ballmer and Microsoft so don’t get it. Microsoft had its annual financial analyst meeting on Thursday, and Steve Ballmer answered questions about what the company’s answer to the iPad was going to be, and whether Windows Phone 7 was going to be a part of that product strategy.
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